After Apple announced a brand new mid-range device just over a week ago, the iPhone SE is now on Aussie shelves. Well, digital ones anyway. All three major telcos will be stocking the device, but Optus is the one you’ll want to go with if you want to get the…
On Thursday, President Donald Trump floated the potentially dangerous idea of injecting disinfectant or “a very powerful light” into coronavirus patients as a treatment because these daily coronavirus briefings have apparently devolved into the president’s personal freeform brainstorming hour.
Dogs wear their hearts on their sleeves. Cats — or at least some cats, some of the time — can spend years at your side without making it totally clear that they know, or care, who you are. An expression vaguely resembling contentment flits across their face and you think,…
Laws are set to pass parliament in May in an attempt to address some of the privacy issues raised ahead of the release of the government’s coronavirus tracing app.
Our planet is altering at a dangerous pace due to climate change. And at the same time, we seem to be entering a period of unprecedented technological transformation. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-connected devices are creating increasingly complex intelligent technological systems.
Scientists recently confirmed the Great Barrier Reef suffered another serious bleaching event last summer – the third in five years. Dramatic intervention to save the natural wonder is clearly needed.
Facebook has removed an ad targeting category for users it has identified as interested in “pseudoscience” after a report in the Markup highlighting how it was being used to market to conspiracy theorists.
S.A. Chakraborty’s Magical Daevabad Trilogy Ends With The Empire Of Gold, And We’ve Got A First Look
S.A. Chakraborty made her debut in 2017 with acclaimed fantasy tale The City of Brass, followed by The Kingdom of Copper, and now, trilogy’s final entry: The Empire of Gold. It’s not due out until the end of June, but Gizmodo has an exclusive sneak peek to tempt you today.
Ongoing social isolation measures in the United Kingdom had prevented an 18-month-old girl from getting her newly installed cochlear implant switched on. Undaunted, her audiologists did what so many of us are doing right now: They made it happen while working from home.
Star Wars and audio have gone hand in hand for years, in audiobooks for the galaxy far, far away’s library of tie-in reads. But the world of audio dramas has always felt like it was a little out of reach… until now, as a very cool Star Wars heroine is…
Happy New iPhone Day! Apple is re-entering the mid-range market with the second generation of its beloved iPhone SE. it surprised all of us by starting at a cool $749. This means that when it comes to plans, you’re going to get a far more palatable monthly bill than if…
Modern phones are some of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment ever built, but the iPhone wasn’t developed in a day. From backlit screens to weird keyboards, the development of the smartphone got us more than a few strange devices. Their oddities are what makes Dave Shevett likes the early…
We’ve always been a website that applauds—and partakes in—automotive idiocy. So it’d be almost irresponsible not to share this video from Russian YouTube channel Garage 54, as it shows the legendary military off-roader, the UAZ 469, driving on wheels made from oil drums. It’s all incredibly pointless.
Twitter is expanding its crackdown on misinformation that may influence people to “engage in harmful activity” to include a conspiracy theory that 5G technology is somehow behind the spread of the novel coronavirus causing the current covid-19 pandemic.
U.S. police in Westport, Connecticut, announced this week that they’re testing a so-called “pandemic drone” that can detect when people on the ground have fevers. The new drone platform will also be used to determine when people are closer than 1.8 metres to each other. Police will be able to…
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Right now, telemedicine could be key to keeping frontline healthcare workers safe. To that effect, plenty of robots have been deployed to help hospitals remotely monitor patients, disinfect surfaces, make deliveries, and bring food to quarantined people. Now, Boston Dynamics is jumping on this bandwagon with its nightmare robot dog,…
Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system, according to a new paper.
As much as I hate bugs with their little creepy wings and huge eyes, we need them. Yet there have been dire warnings of an insect apocalypse on the horizon due to human activities.
You’d have to be really, really bored to devote some time to scrolling through all the settings on your phone or laptop—so the devices you rely on every day may well offer a selection of options and features that you’re completely unaware of. Here’s a rundown of 31 of the…
The Australian government’s coronavirus tracing app is set to be released soon but it hasn’t been without its fair share of controversy due to privacy concerns and a lack of clarity over whether it will be mandatory. The latest concern is that the app’s technical details might not be fully…
Over the last few weeks there has been increased concern around online security. As we spend more time connecting to new apps and programs thanks to COVID-19 and social distancing, we also provide more opportunity for hackers to breach our privacy. This has been seen with Zoom as well as…
If you’re in the market for a brand spanking new Samsung S20, you can now get two of the 5G models for a bit cheaper. Both Vodafone and Optus have discounted their plans across the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G and S20+ 5G ranges. Here’s how much you can get them…
Federal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher announced three measures last week to help commercial TV broadcasters deal with COVID-19 financial stress.
As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour.
A big chunk of the wish-fulfillment aspect of most genre media (sci-fi, fantasy, horror) involves inviting you to fantasize about how you would use your own vast superpowers to save the world in a time of crisis. But in moments like the one we’re all living through right now, the…
Lotus’s plan for the future is finally clarifying a bit; Bloomberg reports it is planning a car that “you can drive every day.” And it doesn’t sound like an SUV or crossover?
In these trying times, you should do whatever you can to soothe yourself, bring yourself quiet, almost meditative joy. However you go about it is your business, whether its yoga, large amounts of gin, vigorous, almost violent masturbation, whatever. For me, it’s digging through huge stacks of old car brochures…
The U.S. state of Missouri filed a lawsuit against China in U.S. federal court on April 21, claiming the Chinese government caused the global coronavirus pandemic. The lawsuit is unlikely to succeed and is most likely a political stunt by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General to distract from the U.S. federal…
Last week, we gave you a guide to the highs of Star Trek at its apex of idealistic sci-fi in The Next Generation. But even the brightest light must cast a shadow, and no Star Trek show has embraced or understood that like arguably its headiest, dramatic entry in the…
Zoom, the video conferencing app that’s seen an utterly staggering spike in usage during the coronavirus pandemic, has been the subject of ongoing reporting over its egregious security failures—which include, among other things, misrepresenting its encryption protocols.
At the week’s end during Jalopnik Virtual Car Trivia Night, Jason and I ask 40 borderline-impossible questions, readers try to answer them, and the team that scores the most points gets literally nothing. Here are the absurdly obscure questions from last week, and here’s how much readers struggled.
Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, physicist, and CEO of software company Wolfram Research (behind Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica) made headlines this week when he launched the Wolfram Physics Project. The blog post announcing the project explains that he and his collaborators claim to have “found a path to to the fundamental…
The CEO of Life Time gyms, Bahram Akradi, was on CNBC today defending his company’s decision to soon reopen its gyms in states that are lifting lockdowns, such as Georgia. It feels like the kind of clip that will be played in future documentaries about how poorly we handled the…
